After a bunch of requests, this morning I upgraded my Graffiti 404 Widget, to offer the ability to clear your 404 statistics. After all, if you found a 404 with this utility, then fixed it, it sucks to see it staring back at you forever.

Now the widget (as pictured below) has a "Clear on Update" check box. Simple open the 404 widget, check this box, hit save, and your 404’s are cleared.

Here is a direct download link (Assemblies are version 1.0.0.1)

If you’re running GrafittiCMS and this is new to you, make sure you read my original post on the Graffiti 404 Widget.

Enjoy!

[UPDATE] June 10th, 9:20pm

Version 1.0.0.2 is now released, which has a working remove 404 version, that also clears the 404 cache.

As a side effect, I had to write a cache viewer, so I could inspect the cache keys. So if you install this, you’ll see a new widget named "ScottCate Graffiti Cache Viewer". I’m not sure if this will be helpful to anyone, but … it was helpful for me, so instead of deleting it, I just left it in.

Enjoy!

Notes from the #Mix09 Key – Newest notes on top. Ready from the bottom up.

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@ScottGu – Just announced support for Silverlight 3 outside the browser on win and the mac.

Built in auto update support. Dev can change it – update the server – SL3 will auto detect / update / install and start using the new application.

Offline aware support in SL3.

Event to be raised when the network status changes.

Offline data support!

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Blend 3 has native import of Adobe PhototShop and Illustrator files.

Saves the layer support, merge layers, etc.

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Ship the protoype to client with a free runtime / viewer / player – can run and collect feedback.

 

Protyping with Blend 3 Sketch Flow

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10:41 Scott Gu Back on Stage. Talking about Expression Blend 3 – Sketch Flow.

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this summer is releasing a new site http://CoverToCover.com

 

Excited to announce… a new site, a new concept. Will go live later tonight ….

http://PlayBoyArchive.com launching this evening with 54 free issues using the technology.

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@10:37 – Scott from VERTIGO showing how they’re using SL3 to browse old rags, with a Rolling Stones demo. Deep linking demo to send a specific page to a friend.

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10:27 SL3 News. GPU Accelration, Perpective 3D, Bitmap & Pixel API, Pixel Shader + Deep Zoom

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10:21 Perkins Miller Sr. VP Digital Media for the Beijing Olympics. Huge traffic volumes, not only during the Olympics, but for the weeks after. The Advertisers were very happy. Users who used the enhanced experiences, ended up watching more regular TV. The online presence made them happier, more engaged, and also ended up watching the television. Again, good for everyone.

Will be able to use the pause, rewind, slow motion, + full meta data overlays.

Olympics will also have a Silverlight relationship for the Winter Olympics next year in Vancouver, Canada.

Will have the ability to do live ad insertions.

331 days to go until the next winter Olympics 🙂

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10:20 New player / IIS Streaming / Has a record behind, with pause for live video, the new web server, automatically archive the video being displayed. give the ability to rewind a live event, pause a live event. Very cool

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10:16 –Gu Demo – Import AVI, h.264, vc1, mpeg3, mpeg4 , showing off the live streaming, the encoding, and

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10:13 Gu back on Stage. SL3 – Enables hardware graffics acceleration – both Windows + Mac. Deliver true HD Quality Media.

NEW Codec support. MPeg-4, H.264, AAC

Also excited to announce, IIS Media Services platform. One click install from the web platform shown earlier.

On demand smooth streaming, Edge caching, web playlists, bit rate throttling, and advanced logging.

Shipping support for LIVE Smooth Streaming. Released today in Beta form.

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Kevin McEntee – Talks about how great Silverlight is for NetFlix. Users do not like to do installers. 12% won’t install. 8% that do try, fail. that’s a 20% failure rate on the old installers.

With the Silverlight installers things are much better.

Now Netflix is out of the installer business. Content protection is built into Silverlight.

Able to rev the NetFlix player every two weeks – in the old days – the player couldn’t be udpated because of the new install. So the player just keeps getting better and better – because a new player doesn’t require a new installer – ITS BUILT ON SILVERLIGHT 🙂 Such a great success story.

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10:01 @ScotGu back on stage – Talking about Silverlight 3

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New Silverlight Virtual Earth SDK.

10’s of thousands of sites aroudn the world

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Joel Spolsky – Talking more about how BizSpark helped them get started. Didn’t want to build StackOverflow for a ton of money, they built it as a prototype.

Kind of a http://StackOverflow.com commercial now.

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Jeff Atwood trying to push OpenId

asp.net routing – mans the urls are pretty, clean, simple, and just make sense.

performance, performance, performance

 

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9:54 Invite Jeff Atwood – Joel Spolksy hit the stage.

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9:53 Bizspark – Enable Startups. http://Microsoft.com/Bizspark

Access to microsoft software.

free licenses.

any product license for first 3 years.

lower initial startup costs.

program includes additional marketing + bix dev

godaddy / rackspace / teir 1 – offer free hosting for BizSpark startups.

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9:51 commerce server 209 release – new version this week.

Host applications in the cloud – SQL services now support relational database Raw ADO.NET support.

.NET full trust ( this was a huge upgrade from the original .net medium trust )

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Installer now with web sites.

http://Microsoft.com/Web/Gallery/default.aspx

An online app store – all free – and one click installer – used the web platform installer.

dev hosts their own stuff. the instal bits come from dev servers, just hosted on the app store.

 

 

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The @Umbraco team is happy to have their logo on screen 🙂

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9:43 Common theme – alot of new technology – how do i figure out all the new technolgoies.

today we’re shipping V2 of Web Platform installer.

provides a unified list of all the microsoft web.stack

http://Microsoft.com/Web

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9:42 – Multiple web.cofig support

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9:41 Code focused features – lots of editor improvements

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9:40 asp.net 4 improvements. distributed caching – velocity, ajax, mvc, and web forms.

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Visual Studio 2010 javascript / ajax / jquery / sharepoint major imporvements

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9:39 – ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM. This was known earlier this week.

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9:38 Super Preview is available today – as a stand alone version – should be available now.

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New product – that shows ALL browsers at once.

SUPER PREVIEW – new Feature in Expression Blend

Can use cloud service – to get images of html from browsers in Microsoft cloud

This isn’t out of focus – it’s showing two browsers overlayed on each other. what’s cool about this above photo, is that the overlay is safari on a mac. yes a mac. it’s an image that was returned from a cloud service, that has a mac running, the html is rendered, and the image is returned and overlayed.

VERY COOL.

 

 

see content in side-by-side. Test ie6, ie7, ie8 on a single machine.

9:33 How do you build a CSS / HTML – Super Preview Demo

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9:27 Buy Steve, Welcome video for ScottGu.

(I have the video – will post later)

Standards based web.

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Briefly talk about how 9 months from zero to scratch was pretty amazing. not that zune is better than iPod – but how zero to final in 9 months was a big deal.

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9:23 Microsoft is bringing on more and more (800) designers

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9:20 Someday we’ll have tools – with renderings, states, and transitions. ( HERE IT COMES >>>> )

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9:19 Need as much details in the transitions, as you do in the states. The transitions are very important. Without the transitions, it’ll fail.

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9:18am Do it with post it notes – much faster than any technology.

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9:17. Starting to talk about Sketching. I think this is linking into a product

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9:13am – Draw my phone. Easy.

Draw the User Interface. Really Hard.

Draw the Experience. impossible.

 

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9:12 Talk about this bike ad – vs. the bike running through the water.

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9:08 General Message == Return on Experience.

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9:02 Bill Buxton takes the stage – Focus on Experience.

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9:00 Show is about to begin – just hooked up with the @Umbraco crowd

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8:54 Trying to find the right picture size – trying 640X480 now. Going with a native 640X480 size.

the hall has 2500 seats – not sure how many are in attendance

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8:51 Live DJ on stage

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8:44 – Sending Twitter updates with #Mix09 tag – will show up in the keynote as we’re waiting.

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If you’re not able to Make it to Microsoft’s MIX09 conference this year, I have good news for you. I’ll be ( let’s call it ) live casting several of the sessions, mainly the keynotes. Images + Quick notes will let you instantly know what’s being announced.

There will be several ways to virtual attend … I’m sure Microsoft will be posting the keynotes in video form, like they have in the past; but I’m not sure it’ll be live. I’ll be posting pictures + short notes as live/fast as I can from the keynote sessions.

Setup a twitter account (if you don’t have one already) and Follow @ScottCate

Alternatively you can bookmark this page –> http://ScottCate.com/Blog/LiveMIX09 and the during the conference it will Live Update with details as they are delivered.

In WPF which is better, to Screen Stack, or Load on Demand.

By ScreenStack, I mean to load all the screen dynamically onto a stack, and then set the visible property of all to false, except the one you want displayed. Like a stack of pancakes, popping the current screen to the top when you want it displayed.

Or … Don’t load the screens in advance, and then Load the screen you want on demand.

Both work … but I’m looking for pros/cons here.

Maybe a combination of both? If this is the case, what screens would I want to keep on the stack, and what screens would I load on demand? Why?

Thank you for your feedback / opinions.

Build numbers are tricky. Just a set of digits, that we all try so hard to make more valuable than 1.0.0.0, which isn’t helpful at all. Our build servers build. That’s all they do is build. Well I guess they also package.

It’s nice to know that the packages are without having to think to hard about it, so here is the build numbering system we came up with. (Notice the dots at EOL).

[Major].

[4 DigitYear].

[Minor][WeekNumber(zero srtart)]
[DayofWeekNumber1=Monday].

[24Hour][Minute(zero start)]

A the final build number of looks like this …

• 1.2009.30402.1010

 Which interprets as …

• Version 1.3
• Built on Tuesday = 02
• During the fourth week = 04
• 2009
• 10:10 AM

With many product builds, building all day long, and so many versions in the wild, I can look at an assembly version number (that match this) from last year, on a product that I may not be familiar with, and immediately know everything I need to know about it’s original and life span. It’s also very easy in my head to know if there is a newer version.

This is all the information we need from the build number, and it’s nice and sortable in the file system.

We prefixed the MMDD with a Minor build number, because when the week is < 10, the 0 is truncated, which breaks the sort.

Do you have another build number idea?

I’ve been forced into @GangPlank, and I’m scared!

Not really, but kinda!

GangPlank Headquarters is a very community oriented tech group in Mesa, and I’ve heard about all the community events they do, but I always seem to be to busy to get over there. With all the community stuff I do, it’s hard to get to everything. Anyway, in December I got a mail from Derek that basically said “You’re speaking in February”. Didn’t ask, just appointed me. There was an out clause, but I agreed, and really liked the idea.

Had he just called out for speakers, I (and presumably others) wouldn’t have responded.

 So Derek — Good job on the take action / just ^ do it (NSFW) / plan.

In January 2009, I started a new blog, and I’m focusing a lot on screen cast videos. There is a lot of reasons, but mostly I just like video. You can say and do so much more, in so much less time, and people really Get It on video.

Here are my starter topics / bullet points to cover in my 20-30 minutes.

Some of these I know, and some of them I don’t. I’ll share what I’ve learned over the last 30 days in getting started with a ScreenCast video blog, as well as be asking questions about the parts I don’t know.

• Software used / Camtasia Recording / Snagit (I heart TechSmith Tools)
• Screen size (why I chose the somewhat weird 900X580 resolution)
• Microphones and pre-amp (I use a Mobile PRE USB)
• Rendering (Camtasia and/or Microsoft Expression Media encoder)
• Mobile rendering (for playback on Windows Mobile)
• Hosting / storage (why I have two storage facilities)
  • Maybe touch a little of Silverlight Hosting vs. Amazon CloudFront+AWS
• Blogging engine (how/why I chose GraffitiCMS)
• Playing back on Silverlight vs. Flash
• Online media players, ScreenCast.com, Youtube, Yahoo, Google, Soapbox

 

 

Here is the recorded uStream.tv embed….

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